The trio told cops they were heading to Brooklyn to rescue a Pennsylvania girl they said was being held against her will.

They loaded up their weapons, packed their bulletproof vests and headed toward New York to rescue a frightened teen trapped in a Brooklyn drug den.

At least that's what they claimed.

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John Cramsey, Dean Smith and Kimberly Arendt were arrested on several gun charges.

Three anti-drug vigilantes in a pickup so bright it could be seen from space were busted as they were about to drive into the Holland Tunnel with drugs, loaded handguns, rifles and 2,000 rounds of ammunition in the vehicle, police said.

The two men and a woman told cops they were driving to Bedford-Stuyvesant on Tuesday morning after a Pennsylvania girl told one of them she was being held against her will, a police source said.

A Port Authority cop noticed a cracked windshield on the red, neon green and black Dodge truck. Officer John Basil stopped the vehicle at the New Jersey toll plaza around 7:40 a.m. and peered into a window.

"The driver was sitting on a loaded .45, so that opened the door to everything else," said Joseph Pentangelo, a Port Authority police spokesman.

A search turned up five pistols, an AR-15 assault rifle, a shotgun, four knives, 10 loaded clips of ammunition and a military-grade helmet.

Along with Smith, John Cramsey, 50, and Kimberly Arendt, 29, of Zionsville and Lehighton, Pa., respectively, were arrested on several gun charges, police said.

Cramsey(l.), Smith (r.) and Kimberley Arendt (c.) are seen together in a picture posted to Facebook. (Facebook)

One of the clips had "united we stand" written on it, and another read "America." The trio also had bullet-resistant vests with "Police" emblazoned on them.

Police additionally found a marijuana pipe in the car and three prescription drug pills.

Authorities said they don't believe the three are connected to terrorism, although the Joint Terrorism Task Force was involved.

When cops tracked down the teen the suspects claimed they were headed to rescue, the girl told police she didn't want to be saved, sources said. Port Authority cops couldn't verify the teen was ever in trouble.

John Cramsey and Dean Smith posted this status on Facebook before they were arrested outside the Holland Tunnel. (Facebook)

Cramsey is an administrator of the Lehigh Valley, Pa., anti-heroin Facebook group "Enough is Enough" and is said to take his involvement personally. His 20-year-old daughter, Alexandra (Lexii) Cramsey, died of a heroin overdose in February, according to friends and officials.

Since his daughter's death, Cramsey has been on a crusade to help addicts and push authorities to do more to punish drug dealers, friends said.

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"I'm currently 11 miles outside of Brooklyn New York and going to a hotel to extract a 16 year old girl," Cramsey posted to a Facebook group page Tuesday. "This young lady from Wilkes-Barre is scared and wants to come home."

20-year-old Alexandria Cramsey (Lexii) died of a heroin overdose in February. Her father John Cramsey has been on a crusade to help addicts ever since. (Facebook)

"John Cramsey has been putting people in rehab with his own money," she said. "When he got the call, I'm telling you, this guy is all for helping people, and I'm telling you, he's going.

John Cramsey posted this message to a Facebook group page Tuesday. (Facebook)

"They shouldn't be sitting in jail," Plocinik added of the self-proclaimed rescuers. "They should be helping these kids on drugs, helping them off the street."

Plocinik said her daughter was a recovering addict, and that she has channeled her own struggles to aid troubled youth over the years, even taking one into her home.

She added that she believes the trio accidentally brought along the arsenal found in the truck in their haste to help.

The impounded Dodge SUV of the three people who were arrested for having weapons at the entrance of the Holland Tunnel is impounded at the lot of the PAPD station at Jersey City, N.J. (Anthony DelMundo/New York Daily News)

"(Cramsey) owned a gun store, and unfortunately, I guess, when she had contacted him about this girl, I know he was in the process of transferring it, and putting it in a shop, and he just jumped," Plocinik said.

The gaudily painted pickup, covered in anti-drug phrases and ads for Cramsey's gun range, was equipped with special lights and a front-end carrier that held a lime green cooler. One decal pasted on the truck reads "Shoot your local heroin dealer.

Lyn Baker, a friend of Cramsey's, told the Daily News that the teen in Brooklyn reached out for help.

The three vigilanties were stopped Tuesday morning when a Port Authority cop noticed a cracked windshield on the truck. (EDUARDO MUNOZ/REUTERS)

"She was high on heroin, she was asking Kim, she was asking for help to come back to the area," Baker said.

"That young girl had reached out to her on the text. John said, 'We can go get her.'"

Baker said she helps Cramsey with Enough is Enough, trying to get people into treatment centers.

"He'd be the spotlight person," she said. "He's very charismatic, always has the right words to say. I would be the one to do placement."

She added that Tuesday was the four-month anniversary of his daughter's overdose.

Cramsey's friends posted their support on social media. "Damn brother, these media outlets act like you're a terrorist," one friend wrote.

Another friend wrote, "We are prayer??? for you John I hope you get out of that situation ok ... We all know you were going to do the right thing."

Cramsey identifies himself on his Facebook page as a "s---kicker" and "chief range safety officer."

It was not clear if the guns in the vehicle were licensed in Pennsylvania.